Nova Scotia Archives
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Receipt for freight of Mi'kmaq supplies to Antigonish
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Halifax 11 Decem. 1800
Reced from Michael Wallace Three pounds three shillings in full for the freight of Twenty one Barrels of Indian supplys shipped on board John Grahams shallop to Antigonish.
£ 3.3.0 Edward Irish
Date: 1800
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 41
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